Challenges in the selection of atmospheric circulation patterns for the wind energy sector

This research has been funded by the S2S4E (GA 776787) Horizon 2020 project, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades as part of the CLINSA project (CGL2017‐85791‐R) and the Juan de la Cierva – Incorporacion Grant (IJCI‐2016‐29776). The analyses and plots of this work have been performed with the s2dverification (Manubens et al., 2018), CSTools (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=CSTools) and startR (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=startR) R‐language‐based software packages. Finally, we would like to thank Pierre‐Antoine Bretonniere, Margarida Samso, Nicolau Manubens and Nuria Perez‐Zanon for their technical support at different stages of this project. We also acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.